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A radio mix of his own works by Latvian beatmaker Oriole, one of the artists supported by SHAPE at the Skaņu Mežs festival. Oriole is one of the Dirty Deal Audio collective, a veteran of festivals in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland and Norway.

Sounds of the SHAPE Platform (Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe).

This episode features Lucas Abela, and the Solar Sound System in India.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

Long-form gonzo radio exploration of artists on the outer edge with Eric Boros.

Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.

This episode features music by Guy Birkin, Ramleh, Tony Conrad, Akira Rabelais and more.

An immersive psychosonic space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, featuring works, selections, edits, experiments, new music, non-music, archival objects, abstract artefacts, sound(system) and A/V art, pop, trash, noise, voice, and the associated mediums, processes and techniques that make up the ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT, all presented for art not profit.

Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.

Glasgow-based Bobby Jewell presents a series of ambient mixes for Resonance Extra with guest features by musicians and artists.

Exploring sound discovery in the internet era with Robin Buckley AKA rkss.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Marco Alessi’s poem “What's a month for the sea / as the waves touch my feet / a shiver, endless”.

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

Featuring (in order of appearance) …

Hannah Regel, Nicolette Polek, Iain Sinclair, David Grubbs, Lucy Sante, Imogen Cassels, Jess Cotton, Joan Brossa, Stanley Schtinter, Edwina Attlee, & Wayne Koestenbaum.

Order a copy of Seven Rooms direct from Prototype Publishing. Read Jaeckle & Chandler’s introduction to the collection, ‘Forethoughts.’

Seven Hundred Horses assembles a select thread of live recordings and materials from the London launch of Seven Rooms at Presse Books / FormaHQ (Regel, Sante, Cassels, Cotton, Attlee and Koestenbaum) alongside choice cuts from the Hotel Archive (Polek, Sinclair, Grubbs, Brossa, and Schtinter). 


& in which ... 

Hannah Regel reads Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘Eleven Stars Over Andalusia,’ Nicolette Polek reads a short story called ‘The Rope Barrier,’ Iain Sinclair reads ‘Animal Drums,’ a cut-up impromptu to SJ Fowler’s motion-picture-poem of the same name (at the Whitechapel Gallery, 2019), David Grubbs reads a slice of his feature-length poem, ‘Good night the pleasure was ours,’ Lucy Sante reads a poem called ‘Call My Baby,’ Imogen Cassels reads a poem called ‘Two Types of the Same Return’ and ‘Moss’ (as in Kate), Jess Cotton reads a poem called ‘States of Bewilderment’ and a poem called ‘Aloof,’ Stanley Schtinter reads Joan Brossa’s ‘Astral Summary’ (Parts I and II of III), Edwina Attlee reads a poem called ‘Refrigeration’ and a poem called ‘Australia Day,’ and Wayne Koestenbaum reads a poem called ‘Stigma Pudding.’

A Suite for Seven Rooms (700 Horses) was co-produced for Resonance Extra by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham; the readings at Presse Books / Forma HQ were recorded on location by Caroline Heron.

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Hannah Regel is a writer based in London. She has been published in The Poetry Review, Fantastic Man, Granta, Hotel and Canal, amongst others. She has published two collections of poetry, When I Was Alive and Oliver Reed (both Montez Press, 2017 and 2020 respectively). Her debut novel, The Last Sane Woman, will be published by Verso Fiction in 2024. 


Nicolette Polek is the author of Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull, 2020) and the forthcoming novel, Bitter Water Opera (Graywolf Press, 2024). She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, and a recent graduate of Yale Divinity School.



Iain Sinclair is a British writer, documentarist, filmmaker, poet, flaneur, metropolitan prophet and urban shaman, keeper of lost cultures and futurologist.



David Grubbs is Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape (all published by Duke University Press, 2022, 2020, 2018, and 2014 respectively). He was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with Tony Conrad, Susan Howe, Pauline Oliveros, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, and many others. 



Lucy Sante’s books include Low Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), Kill All Your Darlings (Verse Chorus Press, 2007), The Other Paris (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2015), Maybe the People Would Be the Times (Verse Chorus Press, 2020), and—in 2024— the memoir I Heard Her Call My Name (Heinemann).



Imogen Cassels is the author of various pamphlets, including Chesapeake (Distance No Object, 2021), VOSS (Broken Sleep, 2020), Arcades (Sad Press, 2018), and Mother, beautiful things (Face Press, 2017). Her writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, and elsewhere.



Jess Cotton is a writer based in London. Her book on John Ashbery was recently published by Reaktion Books. 



Joan Brossa (Barcelona, 1919–1998) began writing when he was mobilised in the Spanish Civil War and would fuse political engagement and aesthetic experiment through sonnets, odes, theatre, sculpture and screenplay within a neo-surrealist framework. Brossa founded the magazine Dau al Set in 1948, and his collections include El saltamartí (1963), Poesia Rasa (1970), and the six volumes of Poesia escénica (published between 1973 and 1983).

Stanley Schtinter has been described as an ‘artist’ by the Daily Mail and as an ‘exorcist’ by the Daily Star.


Edwina Attlee is the author of two pamphlets, Roasting Baby (if a leaf falls press, 2016) and the cream (Clinic, 2016). She teaches history to students of architecture in London. 



Wayne Koestenbaum has published over twenty books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Ultramarine (Nightboat Books, 2022), The Cheerful Scapegoat (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents, 2021), Figure It Out (Counterpoint, 2020), Camp Marmalade (Nightboat Books, 2018), My 1980s & Other Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), amongst other publications. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Centre.

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A new entry in the occasional broadcast series from Tenement Press and Prototype Publishing, Railroad Flat Radio, Seven Hundred Horses is a suite of readings by eleven poets and makers to mark the publication of Seven Rooms, an anthology of works from across the Hotel series, 2016 to 2023, co-published by Tenement and Prototype, and edited by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Jess Chandler. 

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Tiny robots, string quartets, italian stars, celtic hearts, ukelele lovers, ghosts who feel lonely, instigators of collective happenings…all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features Shambush: Makers of The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience. Creators of imaginative, tailored, theatrical encounters, performance spaces and nonsensical events for five to five thousand.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

Littoral Transmissions returns with a new episode of their sonic exploration of the River Lea and surrounding area. Littoral Transmissions are back out & about with a multi sonic soundscape recorded live at Springfield Park.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

For the penultimate show in this run Ilia Rogatchevski presents a mix of club sounds from Olof Dreijer, Ana Zhdanova & Karpesh, ambient post-rock from Trupa Trupa, and remembers Montreal with recordings by Danielle Boutet, Open Reel Ensemble and Enfant Magique. Plus new music from Keeley Forsyth, Vanessa Bedoret and Laura Kampman.

Music journalist Ilia Rogatchevski presents a weekly selection of expansive sounds and adventurous music from the world of audio.com and beyond.

Viral Radio dives deep into the rabbit hole of internet music culture.

He soon became London’s foremost Yiddish poet, founding the literary journal ‘Loshn un Lebn’ (Language and Life) and the weekly ‘Friends of Yiddish’ meetings at Toynbee Hall with its lively mixture of poetry, politics, literature and song, all part of his mission to keep the Yiddish language alive.

Presented by Rachel Lichtenstein – author of Rodinsky’s Room, On Brick Lane and Estuary – who continues to explore her deep connection with the Jewish East End, and featuring the many voices she has collected over the years of those who knew and loved Stencl.

Produced by Patrick Bernard. Archive material courtesy of the BBC and BFI. Head here for more information and a full list of credits visit.

A programme by Patrick Bernard about the extraordinary life and work of the Yiddish poet Avram Nachum Stencl (1897-1983) who went from an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in southern Poland to the bohemian cafés of pre-war Berlin before finally escaping Nazi Germany to arrive in Whitechapel, the heart of the Jewish East End.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.